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This book aims to encourage the reading of ""On the Origin of Species"" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with the broader context of his time. The historical and philosophical analysis, mirrored in the socio-cultural scope, enables the diachronic reading of the text. It is built on various sources of historians and philosophers of science and sheds fresh light on them. Its uniqueness is the broad structure that covers four parts: the pre-Darwinian concepts of species changes; some key elements of Darwin's pursuit of the causes of evolution, from his voyage on Beagle to the publication of his groundbreaking work; chapter-by-chapter analysis of the ""Origin""; and subsequent developments in evolutionary thought. This book is of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, scholars in history, philosophy, and sociology of science and science education, as well as the general public.

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Author:   Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Volume:   34
Weight:   0.902kg
ISBN:  

9783031401640

ISBN 10:   3031401646
Pages:   423
Publication Date:   11 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface: From Biology to Darwin Douglas Allchin   Acknowledgements   01 Introduction: Why Learn Evolution from Darwin Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes     PART I Transformation of Species, from the beginning       02 Debates About Life's Origin and Adaptive Powers in the Early Nineteenth-Century Pietro Corsi   03 The Darwinian not Too Strictly Balanced Arrangement Between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Gustavo Caponi   04 An Amazing Journey: Darwin and the Fuegians Héctor Palma     Part II. Constructing a Theory         05 Darwin's First Writings: From the Beagle Voyage to his Transmutation Notebooks (1837-1839) and Essay (1844) Janet Browne       06 The Development of Darwin's Theory: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection Kostas Kampourakis     07 ""Great as immensity, deep as eternity:"" What Could the Grandeur of Life Say About God's Existence, according to Darwin? João Cortese   08 Mr. Darwin's Beloved Barnacles: Using Cirripedes to Understand Evolution in Origin of Species Marsha Richmond   09 Wallace, Darwin, and the Relationship Between Species and Varieties (1858) Viviane Arruda do Carmo and Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins   10 There Have Been Few Such Naturalists Before, But Still...: Darwin's Public Account of Predecessors Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes   11 You Too Can Find “Grandeur in this View of Life”: A Linguistic Remedy for Resisting the Desire to Abandon Darwin’s Origin of Species Bárbara Jiménez Pazos         PART III Spreading the New Theory to the World     12 How Breeders Work Their Magic (OE01 Variation under Domestication) Gregory Radick   13 Darwin's Ideas on Variation Under the Lens of Current Evolutionary Genetics (OE02 Variation under Nature) Roberto Rozenberg       14 The Two Faces of Natural Selection (OE03 Struggle for Existence) Robert Richards   15 The Newton of the Blade of Grass (OE04 Natural Selection) Michael Ruse     16 How ""Random"" is Evolutionary Change? (OE05 Laws of Variation) Sander Gliboff   17 The Initial Difficulties of Darwin's Theory (OE06 Difficulties on Theory) Roberto de A. Martins   18 Darwin and the Instinct: Why Study Collective Behaviors Performed Without Knowledge of its Purposes? (OE07 Instinct) Nelio Bizzo and Lucas Marino Vivot   19 Darwin for and Against Hybridism (OE08 Hybridism) Pablo Lorenzano   20 From Old Objections to Novel Explanations: Darwin on the Fossil Record (OE09&10 On the Imperfection of the Geological Record & On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings) Charles Pence   21 ""Seed! Seed! Seed!"": Geographical Distribution in On the Origin of Species (OE11&12 Geographical Distribution; Geographical Distribution -continued) Tina Gianquitto   22 The Meaning of Classification, Morphology, Embryology, and Rudimentary Organs to the Theory of Descent with Modifications (OE13 Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs) Aldo Mellender de Araújo             23 The Good Old    Habit of Summarizing the Main Ideas (OE14 Recapitulation and conclusion) Gerda Maísa Jensen, Bruno Fancio Lima, and Marcelo Monetti Pavani     Part IV. Epilogue: What Came Next was Extraordinary     24 Continuities and Ruptures: Comparing Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the Modern Synthesis Gisela Lamas   25 From the Modern Synthesis to the Other (Extended, Super, Postmodern…) Syntheses Thierry Hoquet   Index    "

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Prestes graduated in Biological Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (1983). She worked in marine biology research and as a high school biology teacher, mainly in public schools. She raised her first child during the Specialization in History of Science and Epistemology at the State University of Campinas (1992) and the Master's in Environmental Science at the University of São Paulo (1997). She did her PhD at the Faculty of Education at the University of São Paulo (2003), with a sandwich Doctorate (CNPq 2002) at the Sphere-REHSEIS at the University of Paris 7 and with the birth of her second child. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology of the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo, where she coordinates the Laboratory of History of Biology and Teaching (LaHBE). She is a former president of the Brazilian Association of Philosophy and History of Biology (ABFHiB) and current editor of the Brazilian journal Filosofia e História da Biologia. Her research focuses on the generation of living beings, especially the modes of observation and experiments in the 17th and 18th centuries. Currently, she is developing studies on Darwin's and Aristotle's works.

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